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Science at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 9E: Reactions of metals and metal compounds
Section 5: Checking progress

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Objectives

Children should learn:
  • to summarise how acids react with metals, metal carbonates and metal oxides

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • Ask pupils to work in groups to make individual cards with the names of each reactant, plus signs, arrows and the names of each product for two examples of each of these reactions: acids with metals, acids with metal carbonates, and acids with metal oxides. Each group then shuffles its cards and passes them to another group, which has to sort them into three pairs of word equations, representing three types of reaction of acids, and to write the word, symbol and general equations for their own reactions.
  • construct word equations for reactions
  • translate word equations into symbol equations
  • construct general equations for these reactions

Sections in this unit

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1. Why are metals useful?
2. What happens when metals react with acids?
3. How do acids react with metal carbonates?
4. What evidence is there of a chemical reaction between acids and metal oxides?
5. Checking progress
6. a. What is a salt?
7. b. What is a salt?
8. c. What is a salt?
9. Reviewing work